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Monday, April 15, 2013  If you have not paid your taxes your time may be quickly running out.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  Jamie Bell, 25, pleaded guilty last August to a charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old minor.

Saturday, March 16, 2013  Computerized testing to be the new norm for GED tests starting in 2014.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  George Ryan's lawyer says prison officials didn't cut his client a break when they let him serve the rest of his sentence at home.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Jamie T. Bell pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal abuse charge.

Wednesday, November 07, 2012  The Horizons Soup Kitchen in Quincy is continuing to see more people take advantage of the free noon time meal.

Monday, August 27, 2012  Work is progressing on turning the old Eagles building in Keokuk into a building that features condos and commercial space.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012  An Puerto Rican fugitive was arrested in Timewell Saturday after a traffic stop.

Monday, February 27, 2012  A former Spring Lake Country Club General Manager has been sentenced to six years in prison.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012  A former Monroe County doctor who admitted to writing false prescriptions has had his probation revoked.

Sunday, November 06, 2011  A judge has sentenced a McDonough County homeless man to four years in prison after nearly stabbing a Macomb man to death back in April. The McDonough Voice reports Robert Wilson pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated battery, including the beating of a McDonough County Jail cellmate.

Thursday, November 03, 2011  44 year-old Clifford Cook was sentenced to more than eight years in prison.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011 

Sunday, August 07, 2011  The Hawk Eye reports Karen Sue Huston, 58, was sentenced Friday in Lee County District Court to 15 years in prison, the maximum for child endangerment causing serious injury. Her husband, Frederick Wayne Huston, 65, was given two years for aggravated child endangerment.

Thursday, May 26, 2011  Adams County tax bills hit the post office Friday.